As we’ve discussed previously, the GDPR significantly limits user consent as a basis for processing personal data. One interesting question is whether the new rules on consent will kill free apps in Europe. Free apps typically involve the offer of a service (the app) in exchange for access to personal data (whatever data the app… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Social Media RSS FeedThe General Data Protection Regulation in Bullet Points
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Data Compliance & Security, EDPS, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Safe Harbor, Security, Social MediaUpdated at 8:50 pm GMT on 16 December 2015. The new General Data Protection Regulation is effectively a “done deal” following the final trilogue meeting on December 15. One might assume based on UK media coverage that the biggest change in EU privacy law is that kids under 16 will need their parent’s consent to… Continue Reading
EU Parliament Committee calls on the Commission for immediate action on US data transfers
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union, Legislation, Safe Harbor, Social MediaThe EU Parliament committee that is charged with considering data protection matters (LIBE) has issued a press release calling on the European Commission to take action before the end of 2015 to come up with alternatives to Safe Harbor. Importantly, LIBE has also called on the Commission to reassess whether the European Court of Justice’s… Continue Reading
Safe Harbor Invalidated – What’s Next on the Chopping Block?
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, Employee Privacy, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Safe Harbor, Social MediaAs I reported earlier today, the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) has declared Safe Harbor invalid. The full decision is now available online in English here (other languages also available at curia.europa.eu by searching on C-362/14). There are two key elements of the ECJ’s decision. The first is that national data protection… Continue Reading
EU Top Court Invalidates Safe Harbor and Sends Facebook Case Back to Irish Data Protection Authority
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, EU Data Protection Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union, Federal Trade Commission, Privacy Regulation, Safe Harbor, Social MediaUPDATE: Here’s a link to the English-language version of the ECJ’s full decision: Schrems Safe Harbor Decision A press release issued by the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) regarding its decision in the Schrems Safe Harbor case (C-362/14) confirms that the ECJ has declared Safe Harbor invalid. The ECJ has sent the case back… Continue Reading
ICYMI: Privacy in the Workplace Webinar
Posted in Employee Privacy, Events and Webinars, Privacy Regulation, Social Media, UncategorizedOur 2015 monthly Privacy Issues Wednesday webinar series continued this month with Jennifer Rubin and Gauri Punjabi’s Privacy in the Workplace presentation. Jen and Gauri discussed the latest statutory and common law developments concerning employer monitoring of employee email, access to employee social media accounts, social media policies, and bring your own device (“BYOD”) policies. We… Continue Reading
Register for our next Wednesday Webinar — February 25
Posted in Employee Privacy, Events and Webinars, HIPAA/HITECH, Identity Theft, Mobile Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Security, Social MediaRegistration is open for the next installment in the Mintz Levin Privacy & Security Group Wednesday Webinar series — This webinar, scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, will focus on privacy in the workplace. Our workplace is everywhere these days, which makes employment and privacy compliance even more challenging. Jen Rubin and Gauri Punjabi will discuss… Continue Reading
EU sets sights on Google.com search results
Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Social MediaWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) The highly influential Article 29 Working Party, composed in part of representatives of the EU’s national data protection offices, has announced that the right to be forgotten applies to .com as well as country-specific search results. The Google Spain decision (discussed here) held that… Continue Reading
NLRB Continues Aggressive Crackdown on Social Media Policies
Posted in Employee Privacy, Social MediaIn the past few years the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) has taken an increased interest in whether workplace policies prohibiting employees from discussing the terms and conditions of their employment on social media such as Facebook and Twitter violate the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by interfering with workers’ rights to engage in concerted… Continue Reading
Google, the House of Lords and the timing of the EU Data Protection Regulation
Posted in EU Data Protection Regulation, European Court of Justice, European Union, Privacy Regulation, Social MediaWritten by Susan Foster, Solicitor England & Wales/Admitted in California (LONDON) Could the European Court of Justice’s May 13, 2014 Google Spain decision delay the adoption of the EU Data Protection Regulation? In the Google Spain “Right to be Forgotten” case, the ECJ held that Google must remove links to a newspaper article containing properly… Continue Reading
On the 10th Day of Privacy, my employer gave to me …..
Posted in Employee Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Social MediaAnd, no — it was not a big fat bonus. On this 10th Day of Privacy, we look ahead at employment related privacy issues …. Written by Michael Arnold As use of social media and other technologies continue to raise serious employment-related privacy issues in the workplace, expect to see a flurry of activity… Continue Reading
Consent Isn’t the Only Consideration: NY Comic Con Attendees Disagree that Hijacking Twitter Accounts Makes the Event “100x cooler! For realz.”
Posted in Social Media, UncategorizedWritten by Jake Romero The comic book industry is no stranger to displays of heroic anger and berserker rage, but over the weekend New York Comic Con (NYCC) was on the receiving end of considerable fan fury after it began ghostwriting effusive tweets about NYCC and posting on the Twitter pages of NYCC attendees in… Continue Reading
